Saturday 15 November 2014

School Lunches more nutritious than Home-packed Food: Research

A research has revealed that lunches provided to children in US schools are healthier than the packed lunches that they carry from home. "We found that both packed and school lunches almost entirely met nutrition standards, except school lunches were below energy and iron recommendations, whereas packed lunches exceeded fat and saturated fat recommendations," said Alisha R. Farris of the Department of Human Nutrition, Food and Exercise at Virginia Tech, who led the ...

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